In article <9uecd.7526$rY1.7094@fe2.texas.rr.com>,
usenet  <reply.in.newsgroup@bitbucket.dave.null.net> wrote:

Gary Heston wrote:

  Re-entering it just gets me the log in request again. I don't see
a FAQ page or anything for resolving problems, so can anyone tell
me a) why I have to "log in" just to activate an account, and
b) why it's in this endless loop?

a) Because Berkeley says so

I'd have thought they'd have better things to do with their time, as
short on people and hours as they are.

b) Are you accepting cookies and bypassing any proxy on your machine?  I 
frequently get loops like that from sites that require cookies or java 
or javascript.  Bypassing my proxy temporarily works for those sites.  I 
cannot recall if I had to do that when activating Seti.

There are no proxies involved, and I don't allow cookies on any of my
systems. I lock my browsers down as tightly as possible to prevent
problems from malicious code, popups, and similar trash. Oddly enough,
I rarely have to rebuild one of my systems. :-)  I expect web sites to
make their pages usable for those of us who configure browsers securely,
or lose the opportunity to make their presentation to me.

I can't see any purpose in requiring cookies, particularly for something
as simple as activating an account. That's a flag in the database at
_their_ end...


Gary

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Gary Heston  gheston@hiwaay.net 

Contrary to popular opinion, _not_ everyone loves Raymond.